Sentences with 'robbed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word robbed and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, while understandably welcomed by the youth movement, robbed the movement of its most important cause: opposition to the war. »
• « Watching her, I felt remorse that my political career - and now my illness - had robbed me of so much precious time to spend with my daughters. »
• « "So, what news do you have, paisano? -None," he replied. -But, man," I added, astonished, "don't you know that the Paraguayans have invaded the Province of Corrientes with forty thousand men; that they have seized some steamers from us, that they have robbed, set fire to and taken many families captive? In reply he exclaimed, with the customary tune: "It's a good thing they won't get here! »
• « Some miners forced Indians to work for them; others drove them off their land, robbed and even murdered them. »